To encourage innovation and scholarship, the Social Justice Institute has established a Social Justice Research Fellowship Program that, through competitive grants, funds faculty and student research that advances social justice work, from humanistic inquiry to action research.
Previous grants have supported proposals that focus on issues that are both local and global. From youth development to elderly care; from political systems to individual recovery efforts, these projects have represented the same diversity as their recipients. The Social Justice Institute is proud to support faculty, graduate and undergraduate research over the years.
Faculty Research Grants
2019-2020 Recipients
Center for Engineering Action Symposium on Responsible Community Partnerships
Andrew Rollins, Kurt Rhoads, Umut Gurkan, and Lynn Rollins
Center for Engineering Action (CEngA) Leadership Team
Race, Food and Justice 2020: Analyzing the Urban Food Movement through a Social Justice Lens
Application Coordinator, Graduate Admissions, Weatherhead School of Management
Sing my Brother, Sing! Say what’s on your mind; Do it with a rhyme! with Dr. David L. Moody
Loretta Laffitte-Griffin
Coordinator, CWRU Cashier's Office
2018-2019 Recipient
Clinician Perspectives on Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality
Assistant Professor of Bioethics
Project collaboration with Kavita Shah Arora + Aaron J. Goldenberg
2017-2018 Recipients
Using Photovoice to Capture Diverse Experiences of Cleveland's Opioid Crisis
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Project Collaboration with Allison Schlosser
Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Associate Professor of Law
2016-2017 Recipients
In Search Of . . . Smarter and Fairer Approaches to Federal Tax Subsidies
Professor of Law
View the research abstract and article here.
Anthropology-Engineering Collaborative (AEC): Designing Interdisciplinary Solutions to Global Health Problems
Janet W. McGrath, Professor of Anthropology
Andrew Rollins, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine
2015-2016 Recipients
Lost and Found - Collective Identity Recovery through Legacy
KeyBank Professor and Chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management
Project collaboration with Morgan Bulger + Keimei Sugiyama
Forest Hill Neighborhood Study - How Racial and Cultural Affinities Inform Residential Preferences and Considerations of Neighborhood Desirability
Assistant Professor of Sociology
2014-2015 Recipients
The Quest for Rights & Justice in Authoritarian Enclaves
Associate Professor of Political Science
Masculinities, Fatherhood, and Marginalized Urban Communities
Associate Professor of Sociology
Course Redesign Grant: An Interdisciplinary Engineering-focused Social Justice Capstone
C. Benson Branch Professor of Chemical Engineering
Graduate Student Fellowships
2019-2020 Graduate Research Fellows
Being and Belonging: Transnational Lives of Second Generation Arab Americans
Luma AlMasarweh
Graduate Student, Sociology
Mobility, Agency, and Inequality in Late-Life: Approaching Puerto Rican Elderhood from an Intersectional Life Course Perspective
Brooke Jespersen
Graduate Student, Anthropology
Exploring the Role of PrEP Implementation Strategies in Reducing Disparities to HIV Prevention Services
Julie Schexnayder
Graduate Student, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Crowded Work: A Participant-Observation Study of Platform Labor
Michael R. Slone
Graduate Student, Sociology
2018-2019 Graduate Research Fellows
Reducing Lung Cancer Disparities at a Community Scale using a Multilevel, Data-driven Approach
Uriel Kim
Graduate Student, Clinical Translational Science
Ancestral Medicine and Cultural Persistence: Community Resistance to Colonialism and Cultural Commodification on Rapa Nui
Sonya Petrakovitz
Graduate Student, Medical Anthropology
2017-2018 Graduate Research Fellow
An Investigation of the Detroit Shoreway Developing Neighborhood
Graduate Student, Sociology
2016-2017 Graduate Research Fellows
The Effects of TRAP Laws on the Timing of Abortion
Graduate Student, Sociology
Masculinity, Gender Norms and HIV Risk in Low-Income Communities in Kampala, Uganda: An ethnographic pilot study
Graduate Student, Medical Anthropology
2015-2016 Graduate Research Fellow
Transnational Health Care in Urban Brazil
Graduate Student, Anthropology
2014-2015 Graduate Research Fellows
Belonging and Experience: An Ethnographic Study of Addiction Treatment in the Post-Welfare United States
Graduate Student, Anthropology
Family Care Arrangement and Elder Mistreatment for Dementia Patients in China
Graduate Student, Medical Anthropology
Undergraduate Student Grants
2019-2020 Recipients
Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid with Dr. Richard Falk
Tim O'Shea
Junior, Political Science
2018-2019 Recipients
Fish and Gender Displacement: Actor-Networks of Community Fisheries Management in Senegal
Leo Ndiaye
Junior, Environmental and International Studies
Examining HIV Prevalence and Risk Behavior within Johannesburg Townships Affected Differently by Apartheid
Jennifer Nielsen
Junior, Medical Anthropology and Public Health
2017-2018 Recipients
"I Do Wanna Dance": The Lived Experiences of Professional Dancers of Color
MaryTherese Escueta
Senior, Sociology and Dance
A Dynamic Analysis and History of Street Medics in the United States
Anjana Renganathan
Senior, Biology
2014-2015 Recipient
Hip-Hop Education and Learning (HEAL)
Suneil Kamath
Sophomore, Business Management